Opinion 1660 Steno attenuatus Gray, 1846 (currently Stenella Attenuata; Mammalia, Cetacea): specific name conserved

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by  International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

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OPINION 1660
StenoattenuatusGray, 1846(currently Stenellaattenuata; Mammalia,
Cetacea): specific nameconserved
Ruling
(1) Under the plenary powers the following specific names are hereby suppressed
for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of
Homonymy:
(a) velo.xCuvier, 1829,aspublishedinthebinomenDelphinusvelox;
(b) pseudodelphis Schlegel, 1841, as published in the binomen Delphinus pseudo-
delphis:
(c) brevimaniisWagner, 1846,aspublishedinthebinomenDelphinusbrevimanus.
(2) The name Stenella Gray, 1866 (gender: feminine), type species by monotypy
StenoattenuatusGray, 1846,isherebyplacedontheOfficialListofGenericNamesin
Zoology.
(3) The nameattenuatusGray, 1846, aspubHshed in thebinomen Stenoattenuatus
(specific name of the type species of Stenella Gray, 1866), is hereby placed on the
Official ListofSpecificNamesinZoology.
(4) The following names are hereby placed on the Official Index ofRejected and
InvalidSpecificNamesinZoology:
(a) velox Cuvier, 1829, as published in the binomen Delphinus velox and as
suppressedin(1)(a)above;
(b) pseudodelphis Schlegel, 1841, as published in the binomen Delphinus pseudo-
delphisandassuppressedin(l)(b)above;
(c) brevimanus Wagner, 1846, as published in the binomen Delphinus brevimanus
andassuppressedin(l)(c)above.
HistoryofCase2717
An application for the conservation of the specific name of Stenella attenuata
(Gray, 1846)wasreceivedfromDrW.F. Perrin(SouthwestFisheriesCenter, LaJolla,
California, U.S.A.) on 20 March 1989. Aftercorrespondence the case was published
in BZN47: 32-37 (March 1990). Notice ofthecasewas sent to appropriatejournals.
TheapplicationwassupportedbyMrM. C. Sheldrick(TheNaturalHistoryMuseum,
London, U.K.);thiswascitedonthevotingpaper.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 6 March 1991 the members of the Commission were invited to vote on the
proposalspublishedinBZN47:34-35.Atthecloseofthevotingperiodon6June 1991
thevoteswereasfoll—ows:
Affirmative votes 26: Bayer, Bock, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Hahn, Halvorsen,
Heppell,Kabata,Kraus,Lehtinen,Macpherson,Mahnert,MartinsdeSouza,Minelli,
Mroczkowski, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage, Schuster, Starobogatov, Thompson,
Trjapitzin,Ueno,—Willink
Negativevotes 1:Holthuis.
Dupuisabstained.
278 BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature48(3)September1991
Originalreferences
ThefollowingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonOfficialListsandanOfficial
IndexbytherulinggiveninthepresentOpinion:
attenuatus,Steno,Gray, 1846,TheZoologyofthe VoyageofH.M.S. Erebus'and'Terror'during
theyears1839 to1843,vol. 1 (Mammalia,Birds),p.44.
brevimanus, Delphinus, Wagner, 1846, Die Sdugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit
Beschreibungen von D. Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, vol. 7 (Ruderfusser und
Fischzitzthiere),pi.361,fig.2.
pseudodelphis, Delphinus, Schlegel, 1841, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Zoologie und
vergleichendenAnatomie,vol. 1 (BeitragezurCharacteristikderCetaceen),p.22.
StenellaGray, 1866,ProceedingsoftheZoologicalSocietyofLondon, 1866:213.
velox,Delphinus,Cuvier, 1829,Leregneanimaldistribued'apressonorganisation,pourservirde
baseaihistoirenaturelledesanimauxetd'introductionad'anatomiecomparee,Ed 2 vol 1
p.288. ' " '